Best Grants for Mentoring Programs in Arizona

Arizona high school seniors involved in Arizona College Access Network member programs and planning a bachelor’s degree at an in-state institution can receive up to US $24,000 plus mentoring support. Education Forward Arizona provides scholarships, advising, and success services that include quarterly coaching, skill-building workshops, and campus and career connections, benefiting students in tutoring and mentoring environments.

Arizona nonprofit organizations running youth, sports, education, or mentoring-related programs can seek US $15,000 - US $50,000 to support impactful projects. Fiesta Sports Foundation supports initiatives focused in Arizona that align with its pillars, demonstrate strong methods and best practices, and show sustainable impact for young people and their communities.

Arizona K-12 public schools and LEAs in Arizona with campuses graded D or F can secure funding to provide small-group academic tutoring for eligible students. With a mission to advance equity and excellence, Arizona Department of Education supports tutoring and mentoring programs delivered by qualified teachers or paraprofessionals outside regular instructional time.

Arizona mentoring and tutoring providers serving K–12 students at eligible Title I school sites in Arizona can seek funding to establish or expand 21st Century Community Learning Centers offering academic enrichment and youth development during non-school hours. Focused on after-school and summer learning, the Arizona Department of Education supports activities like tutoring, mentoring, STEM, arts, wellness, and family engagement.

Arizona 501(c)(3) nonprofits offering tutoring, mentoring, education, or basic needs programs can apply for the Season for Sharing Grant, with awards of US $7,500 - US $50,000. Arizona Community Foundation partners in this funder collaboration supporting children, families, older adults, literacy, afterschool programs, housing, food access, and workforce readiness across Arizona.

Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations, schools, and government programs running ongoing mentoring, tutoring, or life-skills programs for low-income youth in Arizona can receive Ross gift cards to buy school or professional clothing. Grants from Ross Stores Foundation help eligible U.S. youth programs near Ross or dd’s DISCOUNTS locations support academic achievement and career readiness; awards US $300 - US $500.

Undergraduate students and recent college graduates interested in public health and healthcare careers can access a full-time, 10-week summer internship through John Muir Health, offering real-world experience, mentoring, and networking. Focused on tutoring and mentoring, it prioritizes participants from underrepresented, first-generation, low-income, and underserved backgrounds, including those in Arizona.

High school, undergraduate, and medical students in Arizona interested in healthcare career pathways can apply for John Muir Health’s CLIMB Near Peer Mentorship Program, a year-long, multi-level mentoring experience. This virtual program connects participants with medical student mentors and offers opportunities to mentor high school students exploring medicine and family medicine careers.

Focused on supporting emerging film composers, New Music USA invites U.S.-based creators to seek grants and mentorship to complete scores for independently financed feature-length films in production or post-production. Arizona composers working on narrative or documentary projects may be eligible for approximately US $20,000 to cover scoring costs, equipment, studio time, and musician fees.

Arizona students interested in mentoring-rich legal career exploration can access a seven-week paid fellowship that combines legal research, case analysis, and attorney mentorship, plus scholarship support for education costs. Current Shawn Carter Foundation scholars in the U.S. who meet scholarship criteria and seek higher education access may be eligible for this Josh Dubin Fellowship opportunity.

Aspiring or current PhD-track researchers in computer science, AI, or related fields can access intensive mentoring and research training through this predoctoral program, including candidates from Arizona. Grants from Allen Institute For Artificial Intelligence help participants gain hands-on AI research experience, co-author publications, and prepare for top graduate programs over 1–3 years.

Arizona high school seniors planning full-time, four-year college studies in business, engineering, or related fields may be eligible for this renewable academic scholarship with one-on-one mentoring support. Bradley Family Foundation provides U.S. students, including those in mentoring and tutoring programs, with multi-year assistance based on merit, financial need, character, leadership, and community involvement.

Undergraduate, master’s, and medical students interested in pediatric oncology research can gain mentored summer research experience through this program, including those in Arizona. With a mission to change the lives of children with cancer, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation provides up to US $5,000 for hands-on pediatric cancer research internships that build skills and mentoring relationships.

City of Milwaukee high school seniors seeking undergraduate education and mentoring support can receive US $3,000 - US $5,000 scholarships that include ongoing guidance through college. With a mission to support higher education, Rotary Club Of Milwaukee Community Tr provides need-based awards and mentorship; Arizona mentoring organizations may share this opportunity with eligible students from Milwaukee.

Arizona individuals interested in intensive youth mentoring and social science projects can access funding through the Bergel Institute to spend a year developing a blueprint for a professional mentoring industry. This U.S.-focused fellowship supports research and program design in tutoring and mentoring, including training, certification, and licensing frameworks, with virtual structure and two funded visits to Florida.

Early-career production managers in live entertainment who are USITT members and U.S.-based can apply for a US $2,000 mentorship award supporting conference travel and expenses. This United Institute for Theatre Technology program pairs recipients with an experienced mentor and hands-on Mainstage management at the Annual Conference, which may benefit Arizona professionals involved in mentoring-focused arts programs.

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Six Decades of Human(e) Progress

At IHS, we build bridges across coalitions working to renew the liberal project—creating a 21st century that's freer, more tolerant, and more prosperous than any in human history.

This work takes on new urgency in a world of rising illiberalism and authoritarianism. Thanks to the generosity of over a thousand individual donors and foundations, IHS continues to find new ways to support the thinkers and leaders who are carrying liberal principles forward.

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IHS works where ideas take root. We place smart bets on the people and research projects that are redrawing the boundaries of human potential in classrooms, in policy, and in public life.

Free Society Grants

For Faculty

Free Society Grants support faculty seeking to develop or expand undergraduate programming grounded in the liberal tradition. Grants are awarded based on project scope and need. The next application cycle opens March 13, 2026; the deadline is June 15, 2026. Funding decisions will be announced by August 7, 2026.

Support for Undergraduate Programming

These grants are designed for faculty who want to cultivate sustained intellectual engagement through mentorship, structured reading, and rigorous discussion—inside and beyond the classroom. The goal is not simply exposure to ideas, but intellectual formation.

All grants include access to ScholarsEdge digital tools, including registration support, to help ensure smooth execution and sustained engagement.

American College Of Sports Medicine Foundation Inc

ACSM is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world, with nearly 50,000 international, national and regional members and certified fitness professionals.

Our Mission: To educate and empower professionals to advance the science and practice of health and human performance.

GSSI Pathways in Sports Science Award | Graduate Student Research & Mentorship Award

GSSI celebrates the passion, resilience, and academic excellence of first-generation college students pursuing graduate degrees in exercise physiology, sports science, kinesiology, and/or sports nutrition. Designed to empower emerging leaders in the field, the award recognizes individuals who are breaking new ground, not only in their families but in the science of human performance.

In addition to research funding, to help promote professional development, award winners will receive one year of 1:1 mentorship from a GSSI scientist. Award winners will also receive complementary registration to ACSM’s 2027 Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, IN.

ACSM requires award winners to:   

• Submit official transcripts if selected as an award winner, 
• Attend the 2027 ACSM Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, IN. 
• Present funded research at a future ACSM Annual Meeting, and   
• Send ACSM a copy of any publications or presentations related to the funded research. 

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What is the Pizza Hut Foundation?

In pursuit of happiness, the Pizza Hut Franchisee community, in partnership with Pizza Hut U.S. is proud to announce the formation of the Pizza Hut Foundation.

Our foundation is seeking to touch the lives of over 100 youth annually by partnering with youth-serving nonprofit organizations focusing on literacy education programs to enable our team members and their peers to be career and life ready.

Pizza Hut Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization under the Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations are tax deductible as allowed by law.

Financial Assistance & Scholarships for Education

Education is key to success in life. However, each year two million students drop out of college due to financial hardship and a lack of financial assistance. In the United States there are more than 900,000 college-bound students who qualify for federal financial assistance each year. Yet almost 90% of these students don’t receive adequate guidance or support, leaving hundreds of thousands of students’ needs unmet.

The Pizza Hut Foundation is proud to partner with Kaleidoscope as our scholarship platform provider, pairing education dreams with funding.

Mentorship Program

While the Scholarship program financially supports the awarded students enrolled in higher education, it doesn’t stop there. The Pizza Hut Foundation offers a mentorship opportunity, through leaders from within the Pizza Hut organization and Vendor partners, to engage Scholarship recipients in a meaningful way throughout their educational journey.

The Pizza Hut Foundation will support engagements with the students via monthly connections to ensure a positive experience for both the mentors and the mentees.

$20K for changemakers with transformative ideas & firsthand insight in early childhood

About the Imagine Award

The Imagine Award by the Promise Fund offers $20,000 in flexible funding (see definition in FAQs) and a six-month cohort-based learning experience for community-rooted early childhood leaders with ideas for transformative impact. ​​Award recipients are at the idea stage and will launch a pilot within six months, testing their solutions with real users, gathering feedback, and refining their approach.

Imagine Award recipients will learn strategies for designing and executing lightweight tests for rapid learning while gaining clarity on their idea's direction using impact and business models. They will craft a compelling story about their work to build future partnerships and run a focused pilot with strong feedback loops for gathering data, all while growing alongside a supportive peer community.

What We Provide

Our grant dollars are flexible and meant to be used at award recipients’ discretion for the pursuit of tests or a pilot of a transformative idea. Read the FAQ for more information.

Direct, one-on-one support from our team to help you learn, get tailored help, and make relevant connections.

Multi-day gathering for peer connection, learning, and pilot design.

Access to a bench of mentors to guide you as you transition out of the program and navigate next steps with your pilot.

Light, tailored coaching to support pilot preparation, launch, and implementation.

Ongoing peer community and resources to continue learning and collaboration

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) offers research training programs aimed at advancing education research through two key initiatives: the Early Career Development and Mentoring Program and the Methods Training Program. These programs support emerging researchers in developing their skills and enhancing their research capabilities to address vital education issues. The funding is designed for early career investigators and current education researchers, fostering rigorous and relevant research that informs education policy and practice.

Chicken & Egg Pictures Inc

Chicken & Egg Films was founded in 2005 by documentary film industry veterans Julie Parker Benello, Wendy Ettinger, and Judith Helfand. As filmmakers, teachers, funders, and impact producers, they were inspired to utilize their collective expertise to uplift the power of fellow women storytellers. Chicken & Egg was thus created to help address financial and creative challenges uniquely faced by women in the field–a model that married funding with mentorship to create not just an organization, but a growing community. 

Chicken & Egg Films shapes a more equitable and just world with the catalytic power of documentary films by providing funding, mentorship and industry access to a global community of women and gender-expansive filmmakers. 

Chicken & Egg Award

The Chicken & Egg Award recognizes women and gender-expansive filmmakers at advanced stages in their careers who are poised to reach new heights in their creative and impact trajectories across the world.

Despite progress by talented women and gender-expansive documentary filmmakers across the globe, there are often still numerous roadblocks that stand in the way of a true industry breakthrough. These barriers are often tied to gender, race, class, disability, and geography. Only a few women and gender-expansive nonfiction directors in the United States and abroad are able to work full time as independent storytellers, and few are folks of color, from working-class backgrounds, or from under-represented countries. 

There are, however, a growing number who are getting close. Each has made several films, and each is an influential leader for the issues they explore on screen. With this Award, Chicken & Egg Films is making a bold investment in these creatives and a statement about gender equity. A greater diversity of voices participating in storytelling drives change. We believe this effort is inextricably connected to elevating critical social justice, environmental, and human rights issues. 

The Chicken & Egg Award consists of a $75,000 USD cash award and a year-long mentorship program. Of the total, $50,000 is unrestricted, allowing filmmakers to decide how to use the funding to support their creative and business practices. The additional $25,000 is a grant for the project(s) the filmmaker will work on during their program year. Our in-depth mentorship program is focused on strengthening Awardees’ professional infrastructure, increasing their visibility, and fulfilling their personal and creative goals.

The Established Clinician Investigator Award to Support Mentoring (KS1) is designed to provide established clinician investigators with dedicated time for mentoring early-career clinician research scientists. This initiative by the US Dept. of Health & Human Services: National Institutes of Health (NIH) aims to enhance the quality of mentorship, fostering the development of future leaders in clinical research. It supports a sustained commitment to training and guidance, ensuring a robust pipeline of skilled professionals.

The Mentored Career Transition Award (KT1/R00) offers a biphasic funding opportunity for up to 5 years, supporting the transition of postdoctoral researchers to independent faculty positions. The first phase provides 1-2 years of mentored career development, while the second phase grants up to 3 years of independent research support, contingent upon satisfactory progress and faculty appointment. This grant aims to enhance the capacity of early-career researchers in achieving research-intensive roles.

The Mentored Clinician Research Scientist Career Development Award (KC1) from the NIH supports clinician research scientists for up to five years, providing dedicated time for intensive research career development. This award aims to guide candidates with clinical doctoral degrees towards achieving research independence by pairing them with experienced mentors who can help navigate their career paths.

The Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (KR1) offers crucial support for researchers aiming for independence. Funded by the US Dept. of Health & Human Services through the NIH, this award allows candidates to engage in intensive research training under a mentor's guidance for up to five years. It is designed for those with research doctoral degrees, facilitating their transition into independent research roles and enhancing their contributions to the scientific community.

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Building a community of journalists committed to better health care reporting.

We believe accurate, contextual and balanced health care reporting is more important than ever.

People depend on health care stories to make life-altering decisions every day.

AHCJ International Health Study Fellowships

A fellowship for experienced journalists with a focus on international health.

In comparing the U.S. health care system to its global counterparts, journalists traveling to different countries as part of the AHCJ International Fellowship program can produce projects that provide valuable insights that can help inform policy decisions, improve health care outcomes and contribute to the ongoing evolution of health care systems worldwide.

Through the AHCJ International Health Study Fellowships, supported by The Commonwealth Fund, you can pursue a story or project comparing a facet of the U.S. health care system to that of another country. 

For 2027, the focus will be on the U.K. and France in comparison with the U.S. health care system. You’ll pursue the projects with the support of your newsrooms or arranged outlets, which commit to publish or air the work.

This fellowship allows highly experienced journalists to maintain their regular employment while working to evaluate a key component of the health care system, a health outcome, access, performance, providers, efficiency or other focal point over a six-month period.

That period allows for preparatory time, a site visit to the chosen European country, interviews and information gathering, as well as follow-up and writing time. Guidance is provided through seminars, conference calls and consultations with AHCJ fellowship leaders, a mentor and exposure to various topic experts.